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How both TCP and Ethernet checksums fail (2015)
At Twitter, a team had a unusual failure where corrupt data ended up in memcache. The root cause appears to have been a switch that was corrupting packets. Most packets were being dropped and the throughput was much lower than normal, but some were still making it through. The hypothesis is that occasionally the…
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Networking & InternetSystems & Performance2017
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 30, 2017 | How both TCP and Ethernet checksums fail (2015) by mmastrac | 107 | 43 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 4 Hacker News comments by 3 different people, from Feb 2016 to Apr 2017.
Most recent:
- paulsutter · Apr 26, 2017
- greglindahl · Jun 26, 2016
- evanj · Feb 12, 2016
- evanj · Feb 11, 2016
